The Japanese can't even be bothered to make their nouns singular or plural! So why do they have anatagata, anatara, omaera and all the rest, and all we got is y'all?? I'm tired of having to use silly phrases like "you guys" or "you people". Even "yous" would be an improvement!

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You do realize that you can be used to address a crowd right? You is one of those words that can be plural based on context.

That's why I said "explicitly plural"! When three guys are standing in my cube at work, and I want ALL of them to go away, "you go away now!" isn't always sufficient--usually only the one I happen to be looking at leaves. And I don't want to have to do a sweeping hand gesture to indicate that I mean "Y'ALL go away!"

Personally, I'd rather have a gender neutral pronoun.

Yes, a third-person one--that would be handy. Then we could have "he", "she", and "ji".

magma wrote:Yes, a third-person one--that would be handy. Then we could have "he", "she", and "ji".

Amen! (>^_^)>

Y'all sounds really lame unless you have lived in a place where it is used often for a long time... or you have a good Southern US accent impression. I personally say 'all of you,' but 'yous' is good too... especially if you're from New York

When I speak, the only slang I consistently use is 'like,' and I'm trying to cut it out of my speech as much as possible... It is annoying. Maybe I should talk like Rock Lee... people would look at me funny.

Just by chance, does anyone have a good idea as to what unaccented English would be? Because most people think Americans speak unaccented English... but that's an American accent! I don't think there is a thing such as unaccented English, because it didn't originate in one specific place...

(T^T)

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Tspoonami wrote:Just by chance, does anyone have a good idea as to what unaccented English would be? Because most people think Americans speak unaccented English... but that's an American accent! I don't think there is a thing such as unaccented English, because it didn't originate in one specific place...